lummi island wine tasting july 21-22 ’23
JULY HOURS: Fridays & Saturdays, 4-6pm
This week’s wine tasting:
MAN Chenin Blanc ’21 South Africa $11
Using only free-run juice preservea a clean and natural character, refreshing acidity, and delicious ripe fruit flavors and aromas of quince, pear and pineapple. On the palate, fresh stonefruit and apple flavors are backed by refreshing acidity, minerality and a pleasing, rounded mouthfeel.
Lancyre Pic St. Loup Rosé ’21 France $15
Raspberry and pear aromas on the nose, with distinctive notes of garrigue. Big, bold and firm on the palate, ending with a long, clean finish; pairs perfectly with hearty salads, grilled vegetables, kebabs, stuffed tomatoes or charcuterie.
Pomum Red ’18 Washington $18
Carefully made Bordeaux blend of cab, cab franc, malbec, petite verdot, and merlot; aromas of red fruit-leather and exotic spices; flavors of black cherry, cranberry, and garrigue.
Friday Bread Pickup This Week
Multi Grain Levain – – Made with a sourdough culture and a flavorful mix of bread flour and fresh milled whole wheat and rye. A nice mixture of flax, sesame sunflower and pumpkin seeds and some polenta add great flavor and crunch. And just a little honey for some sweetness. A great all around bread that is full of flavor – $5/loaf
Rosemary Olive Oil – Made with bread flour and freshly milled white whole wheat for additional flavor and texture. Fresh rosemary from the garden and olive oil to make for a nice tender crumb and a nice crisp crust. – $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Traditional Croissants – Made with both a sourdough levain and a prefermented dough – aka “old dough”– where a portion of the flour, water, salt and yeast is fermented overnight. The final dough is then made with more flour, butter, milk and sugar, laminated with more butter before being cut and shaped into traditional french croissants. –2/$5
To get on the bread order list, click the “Contact Us” link above and fill out the form. Each week’s bread menu is sent to the list each Sunday, for ordering by Tuesday, for pickup on Friday. Simple, right..? If you will be visiting the island and would like to order bread for your visit, at least a week’s notice is recommended for pickup the following Friday.
Lummi Island Wild
We have been carrying Lummi Island Wild’s terrific sushi-grade albacore canned tuna for a couple of years now, and it has been a big hit! If you have tasted it, you know it is Proof that all canned tuna is NOT created equal! And while the $7.50 price per can may seem high at first blush, it is truly Something Special!
AND just this week we have also brought in one of their new products, Smoked Wild Sockeye Salmon, caught by reefnet fishing right here at Lummi Island’s historic Legoe Bay Reef Net fishery.
Economics of the Heart: CLIMATE CRISIS OFFICIALLY BEGINS
The past few weeks of weather along the US southern border states should be making it completely clear to everyone on the planet that the World is now WAY past “climate change,” having now been pretty much officially initiated into the Climate Crisis that we have seen coming for at least fifty years. All living species have a habitable niche that provides oxygen, food, habitat, and water, and human beings are no different. These niches are now getting a lot smaller, and millions of people who have been barely surviving on the margins are at the bitter end of the line.
For fifty years, science has been telling us that there are too many human beings, burning too much carbon for the global ecosystem upon which every living thing depends to remain in balance.
Indeed, as early as the 1970’s the energy industry and the US Dept of Energy were funding detailed climate research to develop models to predict how increasing energy consumption might affect global climate. While these studies were far less sophisticated then present models, they were surprisingly accurate in predicting how the complex interactions among CO2 concentration, atmospheric and ocean temperatures, and increasing heat and kinetic energy in the atmosphere would affect the habitability of the entire planet. Higher temperatures would mean more rapid evaporation, more rain, higher winds, more flooding in some places, more severe droughts in others, and vastly increased risk of forest fires and mega-hurricanes. Melting icecaps would reduce Earth’s albedo (energy reflected back into space), one of several negative feedback loops in the climate system.
We have known for decades exactly how disastrous our failure to limit carbon emissions would be for the interdependent global ecosystems that make life possible. Yet here we are in 2023 watching the early consequences of our collective failure to act. Over just the last few months we have seen a big flock of climate change chickens coming home to roost, most recently the sustained “heat dome” hanging over the US Southwest the past several weeks. In some parts of the world temperatures have gone above what living creatures can endure.
And yet, as unbelievable as it is to hear, Big Energy is doubling down on fossil fuel development and production even as the annual price tag on damages increases exponentially from fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, prolonged droughts, and dwindling water supplies all across the planet. In just the last decade, annual infrastructure damages from these events just in the US have been approaching a trillion dollars from increasingly powerful hurricanes, tornadoes, and flash flooding from sudden heavy downpours.
The number and cost of weather and climate disasters are increasing in the United States due to a combination of increased exposure (more assets at risk), vulnerability ( local climate risks), and the fact that climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme events.
We all have known for decades that we have been changing the climate, but it has been easy, till now, to imagine there was still plenty of time and somehow, magically, it would all work out fine. Well, right about now, everyone on the planet should be starting to wake up to the terrifying reality of how Deep in Do-Do we really are. This was best framed by Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki at an event in Bellingham some ten years ago or so, when an audience member asked him if we should be worried about Climate Change. He paused, thought for a moment, and said emphatically, “You should be shi^^ing your pants!”
Entire regions of the planet are becoming either physically uninhabitable because of heat and drought, or economically uninhabitable because the ongoing risks of fires, floods, drought, and heat make it not worth rebuilding as what were once 500-year rarities become once in a dozen years certainties.
So how likely is it that we humans are capable of the kind of selfless cooperation that will be necessary to save this beautiful planet and it magical living beings…?
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